Software

Facebook Crashes Twice In A Comedy Of Errors

Facebook has apologised for an outage yesterday that cut off “many” of its users, caused by mishandling an error code

14 years ago

Nokia Considers Windows Phone 7, As Vanjoki Lets Rip

Could new boss Stephen Elop bring the Windows Phone 7 OS with him from Microsoft for future Nokia phones?

14 years ago

Cisco’s New VPN Client For iPhone: Review

Cisco’s AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Apple iOS gives IT managers and users a secure, yet flexible, browsing experience

14 years ago

Updates For Hotmail And MS Office Web Apps

Microsoft Office Web Apps and Hotmail introduce new features to attract new users and deter defections to Yahoo and Google

14 years ago

European Parliament Calls For EU-Wide Copyright Law

As if the UK Copyright Act was not controverisal enough, now the European Parliament is calling for a wide ranging…

14 years ago

Michael Dell Shows Off 7-inch Android Tablet

The boss of Dell has teased audiences at Oracle OpenWorld with a sneak peak of a 7-inch tablet PC running…

14 years ago

Why I Quit “Creepy” Oracle: The Father Of Java James Gosling Speaks Out

Talking exclusively to eWEEK, Java creator James Gosling opens up on a series of issues he declined to make public…

14 years ago

Open Source Community Welcomes Government Support

Austerity cuts on big contractors could allow open source into public sector IT, officials have said

14 years ago

Motorola Droid X Handsets Upgraded With Android 2.2

The hugely anticipated Android 2.2 is being rolled out to Motorola Droid X handsets on the Verizon Wireless network in…

14 years ago

Salesforce Upgrades Colloboration Tool With Chatter 2

Salesforce.com has revealed the next version of its Facebook-like Chatter collaboration platform, known as Chatter 2

14 years ago

Three Tweeters Claim Twitter ‘Onmouseover’ Flaw

Three different Twitter users claim to have first exploited the "onmousover" flaw, which is apparently a month old

14 years ago

It’s Time For Local Authorities To Get Open Source

A commitment to open source by a local authority in the UK could be groundbreaking, says Mark Taylor of Sirius

14 years ago

Bristol Council Mulls Open Source/Microsoft Tie Up

Bristol City Council is considering a scheme which adopts open source alongside existing Microsoft software

14 years ago

Two Million Downloads Of Microsoft IE9 Beta

During its first two days of release, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 beta was downloaded two million times. The company also…

14 years ago

Performance Of MySQL 5.5 Release Candidate Praised

MySQL 5.5 release candidate got high marks for its performance enhancements from analysts at the Oracle OpenWorld conference

14 years ago

Mobile Editing Set For Google Docs On Android, iPad

Android and iPad users will soon get mobile editing functionality for Google Docs it has been confirmed

14 years ago

Twitter Fixes ‘Onmouseover’ Flaw

Twitter has patched a serious flaw that generated pop-up messages and pushed unwitting users onto porn websites

14 years ago

Google Transparency Report Tracks Censorship

Google's new Transparency Report tool exposes government requests for data and attempts at censorship around the world

14 years ago

Open Source Vendors Re-Patch Linux Core Flaws

The Linux kernel bugs, first patched in 2007, could allow unprivileged users to take over a system

14 years ago

Facebook Brands Hacking A ‘Major Issue’

Facebook says that hacking scams have become a serious problem for the social network, and plans to implement additional security…

14 years ago

Corporate Tango: HP Drops Lawsuit Against Hurd

Hurd will be working full time for Oracle and, since Oracle and HP are closely aligned, the two companies will…

14 years ago

Apple Buys Swedish Facial Recognition Firm

Polar Rose's facial recognition software could give Apple a competitor to Google Goggles

14 years ago

Pirate Party Walks The Plank In Swedish Elections

The Swedish Pirate Party has failed to gain a foothold in the Swedish political establishment after flopping in that country's…

14 years ago

Grandstream Adds Skype To Desk Phones: Review

The Grandstream GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone adds Skype voice and video calling to an already rich suite of multimedia and…

14 years ago

Oracle Rolls Out MySQL 5.5 Release Candidate

MySQL Server and InnoDB have been enhanced to improve performance and scalability when running on the latest multi-CPU and multi-core…

14 years ago

Microsoft Issues Web Apps Security Warning

Microsoft has warned of a security flaw affecting web applications built on ASP.NET.

14 years ago

Oracle’s Exalogic Targets Amazon Web Services

Oracle's new offering for private clouds features Oracle's own virtual machine technology and two guest operating systems – Solaris and…

14 years ago

BSA ‘Cost Of Piracy’ Report Debunked

BSA's latest report on the economic cost of software piracy has once again been met with widespread scepticism from within…

14 years ago

Adobe Warns Against Unofficial Security Patches

Adobe Systems is warning users against unofficial patches after a security firm issued its own fix for a Reader and…

14 years ago

Android Continues Share Grab From Apple, RIM

Android continues to grow its US smartphone market share according to research, rising from 12 percent to 17 percent in…

14 years ago